Monday on the run day

Tech news from around the world and around the block. It's 30 years after 10 Years After played their last concert in 1974. Intel introduced the Pentium in 1993. It was 60 Hz.

1. There's a new bug, the Witty worm, and it's crashing hard drives. The worm attacks two ISS products, BlackICE Defender and RealSecure firewalls, spreading via a bug in both. ISS is offering a patch on its web site. If you run BlackICE or RealSecure - patch now.
2. Sun will demo a server built for the online gaming industry at this week's Game Developers Conference in San Jose. Maybe we should get one for the LAN party.
3. The IBM Blade server network that was built for Lord of the Rings is being rented out now that business is a little slow for Weta Digital.
4. A programmer who devised a way to bot Google's ad server has been arrested for allegedly attempting to blackmail the search company.